Boardwalk Empire

Set in the Prohibition era of the 1920s Boardwalk Empire is the story of Enoch Nucky Thompson, the treasurer of Atlantic County, Atlantic City, New Jersey. Due to his relationships with mobsters as well as political contacts, the Federal Government start to take an interest in him. His lavish lifestyle seems at odds with his position, and as well as his connections, there is prolific bootlegging in the area. Written by WellardRockard

Boardwalk Empire - EPS 01

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IMDb: 8.6

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Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson, entertainment tycoon at the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, has gathered some of the most important members of the city council to a dinner at his nightclub Babette's Supper Club. It is two hours before the Prohibition will come into force on midnight January 17, 1920. At the dinner they discuss how to organize the distribution and selling of illegal alcohol. Next day Nucky makes an agreement with the smuggler Bill McCoy to buy 500 crates with Canadian whiskey for 35 grand. At a meeting at Nucky's restaurant the crime bosses Johnny Torrio and Big Jim Colosimo from Chicago, Arnold Rothstein and Lucky Luciano from New York, and Nucky himself discuss common interests. Outside Nucky's chauffeur Jimmy Darmody befriends Torrino's chauffeur Al Capone, both being veterans from World War I. Jimmy is frustrated with his inferior position in Nucky's new organization. He and Al Capone decide to rob the trucks that transport the 500 crates of illegal whiskey that Arnold ... Written by Maths Jesperson {[email protected]}

The Ivory Tower - EPS 02

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Prohibition agent Nelson Van Alden turns up unexpected at Nucky's office. He tells Nucky that he is investigating Saturday night's shooting, because he doesn't believe that Hans Schroeder was the murder. As soon as Nelson has left, Nucky starts cutting off all ties that could connect him to the case. His brother, Sheriff Eli Thompson, visits Mrs. Schroeder at the hospital, where she is laying in a bed, reading The Ivory Tower by Henry James. He tries to convince her that her dead husband was involved in bootlegging, and tells her to maintain this explanation, if someone would ask her about it. Jimmy Darmody uses his share of the robbery to buy presents for his family and for his mother, a nightclub performer. When he turns up at Nucky's office, Nucky tells him that he is fired, and that he should pay him 3 grand within 48 hours for the trouble he has caused. To be able to do this, Jimmy steals back the valuable necklace he has given to his mother. Arnold Rothstein phones Nucky, and ... Written by Maths Jesperson {[email protected]}

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When a witness turns up who can link Jimmy Darmody to the woods massacre, the Feds, led by the ruthless Van Alden. get the incriminating information from the dying witness before Eli can silence him. Nucky banishes Jimmy from Atlantic City, and Rothstein recruits Luciano to kill him in revenge. Nucky uses his influence to get Margaret a well-paying job in an upscale French dress shoppe on th Boardwalk, where she meets Lucy. Chalky demands that his cut of the bootleg liquor operation be raised from 35% to 50% after one of his cohorts is lynched by local KKK members, and Nucky agrees in order to avoid a protracted race war in an election year. Written by duke1029

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While entertaining guests for his birthday party, Nucky makes it clear to invited guests Senator Edge and Jersey City mayor Frank I am the law Hague that he wants the highway funds earmarked for Jersey to come to the Atlantic City area as prospective tourists have no choice but to travel muddy dirt roads to the resort center. When Luciano has no luck finding Jimmy's whereabouts from wife Angela, he dispatches a subordinate to use draw him out into the open by disfiguring his prostitute mistress. Chalky tortures the Grand Ctclops of the local KKK chapter and discovers the Klan is not responsible for the lynching. Written by [email protected]

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53 min

Nucky makes preparations for the annual Celtic dinner on St. Patrick's Day, which are complicated when the dwarfs from Tiny Town who traditionally play the leprechauns insist on a raise and brother Eli wants to male a divisive speech supporting the IRA. Jimmy tries to get Pearl through the trauma of her disfigurement with drugs and Capone insists that she should leave the bordello. Written by [email protected]

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Jimmy persuades Johnny Torrio that he should aggressively respond to the Sheridan Brothers Gang about how the territory of Chicago's Greektown will be divided. Luciano finds Gillian's company eases his gonorrhea-caused impotence. Lucy realizes that Margaret is getting more and more of Nucky's attention and tries to intimidate her while Nucky angles with Jersey City boss Frank Hague on how the highway construction allocations will be divided between Jersey City and Atlantic County. Written by [email protected]

Hold Me in Paradise - EPS 08

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IMDb: 8.3

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49 min

Nucky travels to Chicago and acts as kingmaker during the Presidential convention when he backs an underdog candidate, Warren G. Harding, a corrupt and not very intelligent U.S. senator with several mistresses. Nucky , in turn, works against Senator Edge when he discovers that he gave Jersey City mayor Frank Hague the highway funding he was counting on to bring more visitors to Atlantic City. In Nucky's absence, rival mobsters sense weakness in his organization and rob his primary casino, severely wounding brother Eli in the process. Eli is now forced to trust Margaret as part of his organization and to recruit back Jimmy Darmody to counter the growing power of Rothstein and Luciano. Written by [email protected]

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Jimmy arrives from Chicago under his new agreement with Nucky to retaliate against a rival gang element, the D'Alessio brothers from Philadelphia, who've been recruited by Luciano to further Rothstein's Atlantic City interests. He receives a chilly reception from Angela when he gets home, totally unaware that she's involved in a menage a trois with photographers Robert and Mary Dittrich. Gillian uses her access to Luciano to Jimmy's advantage, but Van Alden interrupts Jimmy's plans for Luciano's execution and arrests him for the woods murders with Billt Winslow as his star eyewitness. Despite these circumstances Nucky is confident that Jimmy's path to freedom does not lie with a good lawyer, but through other means. Madame Jeunet asks Margaret to intercede on her behalf with Nucky on the new protection rate she must pay, and the dying Commodore urges Nucky to drop the current mayor and brother Eli as sheriff and switch his support in the critical upcoming election. Written by [email protected]

Paris Green - EPS 11

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Van Alland remains suspicious of Sebso and his story of murdering a star witness in self-defense. Sebso asks Nucky if he can help and he's directed to a distillery to bust with unexpected results. The dying Commodore seeks a rapprochement with illegitimate son Jimmy and the attending doctor reveals some unexpected information. Angela expects to leave for Paris with her son and Mary, but she must change her plans. Margaret leaves Nucky after a domestic argument with him when she feels that the city treasurer is only using her. Written by [email protected]

A Return to Normalcy - EPS 12

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Nucky's flexible organizational skills are tested in the days leading up to election day as his choice for mayor and President prove successful, and he comes to an uneasy truce with Rothstein on getting the World Series indictment quashed. Several question his handling of the Commodore's unsuccessful assassin and Eli is resentful of what he considers his brothers handling of his situation. Nucky makes up with Margaret by revealing his vulnerabilities and Jimmy and Angela do the same. Van Alden struggles with his conscience and future direction. Written by [email protected]